Ray Explained
Ray or RAY may refer to:
Fish
- Ray (fish), any cartilaginous fish of the superorder Batoidea
- Ray (fish fin anatomy), the bony or horny spine on ray-finned fish
Science and mathematics
- Half-line (geometry) or ray, half of a line split at an initial point
- Directed half-line or ray, half of a directed or oriented line split at an initial point
- Ray (graph theory), an infinite sequence of vertices such that each vertex appears at most once in the sequence and each two consecutive vertices in the sequence are the two endpoints of an edge in the graph
- Ray (optics), an idealized narrow beam of light
- Ray (quantum theory), an equivalence class of state-vectors representing the same state
Arts and entertainment
Music
Fictional characters and mascots
- Ray (Ninjago), a character in Ninjago
- Ray Barone, main character in the American sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond
- Ray Bulgarin, minor character in GTA IV
- Ray Donovan, titular main character in the American TV drama series Ray Donovan
- Father Ray Mukada, priest character in the American TV drama series Oz
- Ray, a character in the television series Bear in the Big Blue House
- Ray, the mascot from Good Morning America
- Ray, a firefly in the 2009 animated Disney film The Princess and the Frog
- Ray Stantz, a main character in the American film Ghostbusters
- Ray, a protagonist in Ray the Animation, a science fiction anime television series
- Ray, a main character in the Canadian television series Rusty Rivets
- Ray the Flying Squirrel, a video game character from Sonic the Hedgehog
- Ray Manchester, from the live action series Henry Danger and Danger Force
- Ray (comics), a DC Comics character
Other media
- Ray (art journal), a British little magazine
- Ray (manga), a manga and anime series about a doctor with X-ray vision
- Ray (film), a 2004 film biography of African-American singer Ray Charles
- Ray (TV series), a 2021 Netflix anthology series based on Satyajit Ray's stories
- The Ray (Chardin), a 1728 painting by Jean Simeon Chardin
People
Places
Iran
Russia
United Kingdom
United States
Elsewhere
Technology
Transportation
Vehicles
Other uses in transportation
Other uses
- Rays (retailer), an Australian outdoors store
- Rāʾ ("ر"), a letter of the Arabic alphabet
- Raha-automaattiyhdistys (Finland's Slot Machine Association), a Finnish gambling provider
- Tampa Bay Rays, a Major League Baseball team
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